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Caravanne du sultan ala Mecque : mascarade turque donnée a Rome par Messieurs les pensionnaires de l'Academie de France et leurs amis au Carnaval de l'année 1748 : dediée à messire Iean Francois de Troy, ecuïer, conseiller sécrétaire du Roi, chevalier de l'Ordre de S. Michel, directeur de l'Academie roïale de France a Rome, ancien Recteur de celle de Paris, et ancien Prince de l'Academie de S. Luc de Rome & c ...

by: Vien, Joseph-Marie, 1716-1809

Publication date: 1749

Topics: Costume, Masquerades, Festivals, Costume -- Italy -- Rome -- Early works to 1800, Costume -- History -- 18th century, Masquerades -- Italy -- Rome -- Early works to 1800, Festivals -- Italy -- Rome, Italy -- Rome

Publisher: [Paris] : [publisher not identified]

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Etchings include illustrated dedicatory t.p., 1 unnumbered plate, frontispiece?, and 30 numbered plates, by Joseph Vien after his own drawings,which were completed and dispatched in November 1748. The costumed characters represent identified associates of the Academie. Cf. Gaehtgens; Boucher

Breazeale reports the prints were not announced for sale until January 1751 in the Mercure de France (p. 119)

First impression of the 1st ed

Gaehtgens, T. W. J.-M. Vien

Breazeale, M. K. Art of Joseph-Marie Vien

Boucher, F. Dessins de Vien pour la mascarade

32 leaves of plates : 42 cm

Etchings include illustrated dedicatory t.p., 1 unnumbered plate, frontispiece?, and 30 numbered plates, by Joseph Vien after his own drawings, which were completed and dispatched in November 1748. The costumed characters represent identified associates of the Academie. Cf. Gaehtgens; Boucher